CaliforniaContraceptives.
What it does
Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, establishes, in the Department of Consumer Affairs, the California State Board of Pharmacy to license and regulate the practice of pharmacy.
More detail
Existing law authorizes a physician and surgeon, nurse practitioner, registered nurse, and specified other health care practitioners acting within the scope of their practice to use a self-screening tool to identify patient risk factors for the use of self-administered hormonal contraceptives by a patient and, after examination, to prescribe, furnish, or dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives to the patient.
This bill would, instead, make those provisions applicable to contraceptives.
Existing law authorizes a pharmacist to furnish self-administered hormonal contraceptives in accordance with standardized procedures or protocols developed and approved by both the California State Board of Pharmacy and the Medical Board of California, in consultation with specified other entities.
This bill would authorize a pharmacist to also furnish federal Food and Drug Administration-approved nonhormonal contraceptives in accordance with those standardized procedures or protocols. The bill would require a pharmacist, for each federal Food and Drug Administration-approved nonhormonal contraceptives initiated, to provide the recipient with a standardized fact sheet, as specified.
Existing law prohibits a pharmacist, pharmacist's employer, or pharmacist's agent from directly charging a patient a separate consultation fee for emergency contraception drug therapy services and requires the pharmacist to disclose the total retail price of the emergency contraception drug therapy. Existing law makes those provisions inoperative for dedicated emergency contraception drugs if these drugs are reclassified as over-the-counter products by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
This bill would delete those provisions.
Existing law requires a pharmacist to dispense, at a patient's request, up to a 12-month supply of an FDA-approved, self-administered hormonal contraceptive.
This bill would, instead, make those provisions applicable to contraceptives.
This bill would make related conforming changes.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Sep 13Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Pérez.Latest
- Aug 20Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 19From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.Minor
- Jul 14From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jul 9From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.Major
- Jul 3In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Jun 23In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- Jun 11In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- Jun 9From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.Major
- Jun 4Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.Minor
- May 28In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- May 27Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1737.)Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded AB 968 Boerner Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- May 22Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 21From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 21).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- May 14In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- Apr 29From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 10Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.Minor
- Apr 8Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.Minor
- Apr 7From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended.Major
- Apr 7In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Mar 10Referred to Com. on TRANS.Minor
- Feb 21From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- Feb 20Read first time. To print.Introduced